I was also quite taken aback by Helen’s straightforward nature in the book. What the Greeks did to those women, some not even eighteen, was truly disgusting and horrific, and no one should ever have to experience what they did. I liked the chapter the most and while part of the reason was that I LOVE The Song of Achilles and seeing Achilles and Patroclus bantering made my heart beat faster, it was far more interesting to see a different perspective. Briseis was taken by Achilles for Patroclus. Agamemnon refused and Apollo infected the Greek camp with a disease. Chryseis was the daughter of a priest of Apollo who tried to bargain with Agamemnon to get his daughter back. I didn’t properly get into the story until the chapter on Briseis and Chryseis, both Trojan slaves to the Greeks.
However, I hadn’t expected each chapter to be told from a different POV and this made it a little hard to get into. So many retellings have been from your traditional male point-of-view and it was refreshing that Haynes wanted to do something different. Calliope, the muse, narrates stories of the Trojan War from the women’s POV for an unnamed poet, talking about Helen of Troy, Hecabe, Penelope, Oenone and Briseis.Īlthough this is a fiction book, it’s hard to write a detailed summary of it as I do for my other reviews because this was more of an anthology written in a non-linear fashion.
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